Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

I think holiday spirit can mean many things and I think holiday spirit is just sort of your state of happiness during the holidays. You could say the same thing about spring spirit or summer spirit.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

Good clothing is a passport to happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction - satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.